My study of Stanley Kubrick's futurist cinema, STRANGELOVE COUNTRY, is a finalist for the Big Other Book Award in the Best Nonfiction category. I recently recorded a short reading for the awards series. youtu.be/gEsLfRIxg1E @bigothermag.bsky.social

Skip the wait, steal the booth at the link in bio 🍲 New Fiction for Flavor Town USA: “Between Now and Forever” by @dharlanwilson.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/05/26/n...

Wherein Jesi Bender reads from CHILD OF LIGHT, a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Fiction! youtu.be/Nlnb2i4WFdA?... Cc: @whiskeytit.com

FANGORIA reviewed THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN by @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social! "A nuanced, feminine horror universe only Kiste could write."

Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social! The Nga'phandileh Whisperer is shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award for Best Novella! Read more about this fabulous book: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ng...

There was a very cool mention of Bleak Houses by @katemaru.bsky.social in this CrimeReads book list. crimereads.com/horror-novel...

Beauty, Burning: The Condition Of Music — Daniela Cascella ( @erratumpress.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2026/05/21/b...

"Collective history erupts onto the page: rebellions, insurgencies, and movements that have all but disappeared from official nationalist historiography." Reuven Pinnata on “The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dog-meows-cat-barks-eka-kurniawan-indonesia-bildungsroman/

excerpt from The Unteachable | *out now* at Anti-Oedipus Press open.substack.com/pub/ansgaral...

Every year @npr.org asks us critics about one summer book we’re stoked about. I had to go with @paultremblay.bsky.social’s Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep. www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n...

This week on Planetside… Our series Writing from History continues with “Unearthing Timbuktu’s Legacy: Using West African Manuscripts in SFF Worldbuilding” by Jason Collins, read by @geekartzentner.bsky.social: sfwa.org/2026/05/19/u...

"Riley’s novels have often traded in the problem of sympathy, its inability to enlarge her characters’ worlds, its ridiculous purchase on readers." Isabella Gullifer-Laurie on “The Palm House”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gwendoline-riley-palm-house-friendship-london-novel-review/

A compelling look at how gamification shapes modern life in both positive and negative ways; @r-emrys.bsky.social dives into C. Thi Nguyen's The Score and what's lost in reducing everything down to money and simplified metrics

Camera Obscura provides a forum for scholarship and debate on feminism, culture, and media studies. Issue 121 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/7VWnYD3 Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/NN0pgEd

The 4th Annual @historythroughfiction Contest opens June 15 for unpublished short stories (<5k) set in any historical setting, any subgenre, any time period before 2000. Read more at NewPages! #writingcontest #historicalfiction

Ohio HB 698 threatens to strip labor protections from higher ed workers. “It would create a system where Ohioans who were doing perfectly legal jobs in good faith would be placed on a watch list & monitored by the government in perpetuity." —Steve Mockabee, Ohio AAUP @ohaaup.bsky.social

Wherein Elizabeth Robinson Reads from VULNERABILITY INDEX (Curbstone Press), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry and the 2025 BIG OTHER Readers’ Choice Award! youtu.be/Dltj93NITYc

We are looking for volunteer submission readers! Join a community of 200+ submission #readers at After Dinner Conversation. Help us find the needle in the haystack of submissions. (Being a #reader is the fastest way to improve your writing) msg "[email protected]"

I opened a Big Cartel site so it's easier to order signed copies of my books. Be sure to put a note at checkout if you want it personalized in a specific way. benarz13.bigcartel.com

THE UNTEACHABLE out now with Anti-Oedipus Press, review copies available -> feel free to email me for a pdf, or contact the publisher for a pbk review copy anti-oedipuspress.com/books/theunt...

In the condition of music, beauty is not beautiful. It has the necessary instability of a flickering and the urgency of a burning in some terrible wind-tortured place, perhaps a garden. www.erratumpress.com/beauty-burni...

Recent and forthcoming titles. dharlanwilson.com/books @guidedogbooks.bsky.social @rdspress.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social @tandfonline.bsky.social

Wherein Laurie Blauner reads from SWERVE (Rain Mountain Press), a Finalist for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Nonfiction. youtu.be/VN_eis6pleg?...

Now that THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP has been released we're getting lots of great feedback about it. What's your favorite poem by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social?

#RIP Donald Gibb. For most he was Ogre. For me he'll always be "Graceless Pirate" from Amazon Women on the Moon. pagesix.com/2026/05/12/c...

This fantastic StoryBundle curated by @genni.bsky.social includes two of our books and many others from Shirley Jackson nominees. It won't be on sale for long so don't wait to snag it! storybundle.com/award

Out now. The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk @plumeriapics.bsky.social By David Hughes plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/pro...

"STRANGELOVE COUNTRY is cited and structured in a way that contributes to the academic discourse on film. But it’s also a good read." —HEAVY FEATHER REVIEW heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/05/11/s...

Currently available for sale on our website: Code Name Prague by @dharlanwilson.bsky.social. It's new, $14.95, and science fiction. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/cod...

My latest novel, a collection of post-real essays, is now available from @guidedogbooks.bsky.social and @rdspress.bsky.social. dharlanwilson.com/books/usurper

"This essay is, thus, an essay of contradictions: I am using language to write about how I am alienated from my languages. But what other tool do I have?" poupeh missaghi on how language fails the times: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/iran-war-united-states-israel-france-language-diaspora/

"Since written language only emerged about 5,000 years ago — recent in evolutionary terms — our brains haven’t had time to evolve dedicated reading circuits. Instead, we’ve repurposed the neural networks that once kept our ancestors alive in the wild."

2026 Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards locusmag.com/feature...

Terrific to hear that STRANGELOVE COUNTRY is a finalist for the Big Other Book Award in the Best Nonfiction category! bigother.com/2026/05/07/a... @bigothermag.bsky.social Stalking Horse Press (2025)

Announced today: the Finalists for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Nonfiction! bigother.com/2026/05/07/a...

It's LAUNCH DAY for THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social so we're sharing the rousing Introduction by author and screenwriter Peter Atkins. It's a 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 and why you should give this book a chance. rawdogscreaming.com/monster_cert...

Congrats to @pedroiniguez.bsky.social who made the REFORMA National Book Award Longlist given for a work that best portrays, affirms, & celebrates the Latino/x/é cultural experience in a work of literature. They had a great take on FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE! www.reforma.org/book-award-2...

Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.

Seen our story bundle yet? Shirley Jackson Award winners, nominees and authors. Pay what you like for a bundle of awesomeness! @storybundle.bsky.social, @meerkatpress.bsky.social, @rdspress.bsky.social, @pspublish.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social, @stelliform.press storybundle.com/award

Announced today: the Finalists for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Translation! bigother.com/2026/05/06/a...

Announced today: the Finalists for the 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award for Poetry! bigother.com/2026/05/05/a...

Announced today: the finalists for the 2025 BIG OTHER Readers’ Choice Award! bigother.com/2026/05/04/a...

What's on your reading list for Latino Books Month? We're celebrating with the release of @pedroiniguez.bsky.social's THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP on May 7th. It's currently in the top 100 for Diversity & Multicultural Poetry on Amazon! www.amazon.com/Build-Monste...

Got to contribute a story to the ABANDONED: ASYLUM anthology, edited by James Chambers. Full table of contents just got announced at the Raw Dog Screaming Press website: bit.ly/4cWhw2O @rdspress.bsky.social

I feel very lucky to have edited the latest novels from Anti-Oedipus Press: @steveaylett.bsky.social’s THE BOOK LOVERS and @ansgarallen.bsky.social’s THE UNTEACHABLE. Out now! anti-oedipuspress.com/books

#FREE #eBOOK #Giveaway #Horror #Detective #Zombie #doomsday WHEN GRAVEYARDS YAWN (The #Apocalypse Trilogy Book 1) Available at your favorite online bookstore, and as "NO STRINGS ATTACHED" direct download @gwellstaylor.bsky.social (click link in bio)

Happy Birthday to Lutz Bacher! Hear him on our episode about THE RECKLESS MOMENT: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2019/11/epis...

This week on Planetside… SFWA’s awards had humble beginnings and grew to become the event of the year. Learn more from “A Brief History of SFWA: The Nebula Awards Report” by @michaelcapobianco.bsky.social, read by @bobgreenberger.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2026/04/28/a...

"This phase in the Israeli hostility toward Iran may well surpass any previous milestone in its savagery and scale of devastation.” Hamid Dabashi on the destruction of Iranian cultural heritage sites: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mirror-hall-golestan-palace-iran-culture-trump-netanyahu